On 29/03/2012, at 5:49 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
Let's recall the Builder pattern. There are actually two variables.
s/variables/variants/
Sorry.
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On 29/03/2012, at 3:39 AM, Steven Clarke wrote:
We don’t have the luxury of dismissing these types of programmers. While it
might strike you with terror that these programmers exist, they are
successfully building applications in many different domains. They may work
differently to you
On 29/03/2012, at 3:39 AM, Steven Clarke wrote:
On the factory design pattern, that has been studied also. This will likely
make you even more terrified of using software built by other software
engineers J,
I boggle at calling these people software engineers.
They appear to be, at best,
Steven,
Given that many programmers have been trained to believe that opportunism
is bad, it is also likely that observation of programming evokes
non-opportunism. For example, in Rosson and Carroll's Reuse of Uses
paper, the subjects exhibited opportunism with respect to using an API, but
John,
Given that many programmers have been trained to believe that opportunism
is bad, it is also likely that observation of programming evokes
Are many programmers taught anything and if they are does it go in
one ear and out the other?
I think most developers pick up a rag bag of habits
